Hook and eye



(No Model.)

P. YOUNG. Now by marriage P. Y. WEEKS.

HOOK AND EYE.

No. 604,135. Patented May 17,1898.

XNVENTQR WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY.

Nrrnn STATES PAULINE YOUNG, (NOW BY MARRIAGE PAULINE YOUNG WEEKS,) OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 604,135, dated May 17, 1898.

Application filed December 1, 1896. Serial No. 614,049. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAULINE YOUNG, (now by marriage PAULINE YOUNG WEEKs,) residing in the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a description.

The object of my invention is o produce at hook and eye that can readily be attached to garments or other articles without the loss of time and the expense incident to sewing them on and which may readily be removed and replaced when desired.

The construction is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is an illustration of my invention in top plan View, part being broken away for the purpose of illustration; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the construction illustrated in Fig. 1.

The invention consists in forming the hook and the eye each from a single piece or strand of material, with pins and catches integral therewith, by means of which the hook and the eye, respectively, may readily be attached and secured to a garment and as readily removed therefrom.

In the construction a single piece of wire cut to suitable length is bent at the middle to form the point of the hook l and turned to form the shank 2. At the base of the shank the respective ends are bent outward, then downward and inward, and finally reversed to form the catches 3, so that their two members 3 and 3" are caused to interlock,whereby spreading is prevented. The respective ends of the wire are bent to form two loops 4, provided with pin-points 5, which are adapted to be thrust through the goods and by engaging with the catches 3 secure the hook to the garment. The eye is similarly formed from a single piece of wire,with pins and catches integral therewith, the ends being first bent to form the eye, then turned outwardly, then downwardly and inwardly, and finally reversed to complete the catches 6, having their strands 6 and 6 interlocking.

It will be understood that the position of the catches with respect to the point of the hook may be varied and that the several proportions may be varied as found expedient.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, a garmentfastener of the hook-and-eye type, composed of a single piece of wire, having two catches each formed from the body of the wire and beneath the fastener by turning an end section of the Wire outward from the fastener, then downward therefrom and inward and finally reversing the end section to complete the catch so that the strands forming each catch interlock, whereby spreading is prevented, and two plain pin-pointed loops each formed by turning the end section of wire from the catch across the initial strand there of, the looper-point being adapted to engage the catch, as specified.

PAULINE YOUNG. Witnesses:

THOMAS S. YATES, CHARLES N. BUTLER. 

